Confronting Tyranny

Ancient Lessons for Global Politics
Herausgeber: Koivukoski, Toivo; Tabachnick, David

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Produktbeschreibung

Motivated by the reentry of tyranny into political discourse and political action, this new work compares ancient and contemporary accounts of tyranny in an effort to find responses to current political dilemmas and enduring truths. In our globally interconnected world, tyrant...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780742544000
• ISBN-10: 0742544001
• Artikelnr.: 21692278

Autorenporträt

Toivo Koivukoski teaches political philosophy at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. David Edward Tabachnick is assistant professor of political science at Nipissing University.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Why Talk about Tyranny Today? 2 Tyranny, Ancient and Modern 3 Tyranny
Bound 4 An Omission from Ancient and Early Modern Theories of Tyranny:
Genocidal Tyrannies 5 Failures of Autonomy: A Hegelian Diagnosis of Modern
Tyranny 6 What is "Tyranny"?: Considering the Contested Discourse of
Domination in the Twenty-First Century 7 Postcolonial African and Middle
Eastern Tyrannies: Combing the Worst of the Classical and Modern Traditions
8 Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche: From the Ancient to the Modern 9
Tyranny from Plato to Locke 10 Is There an Ontology of Tyranny? 11 Tyranny
and the Womanish Soul 12 The Soul of the Tyranny, and the Souls of You and
Me: Plato's Understanding of Tyranny 13 The Education of a Tyrant 14 The
Folly of the Wise? 15 In the Shadow of the Fortress 16 The New Age of
Tyranny